PARK SLOPE — A woman on her way to the store for cigarettes was punched and robbed by a man in his 50s, according to a police report.
The 30-year-old woman left her apartment on Sackett Street near Fourth Avenue at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 10 when the man hit her and took her iPhone 6 Plus and Tory Burch purse, which contained $100 in cash, the report stated.
Other notable recent crimes in the 78th Precinct included the following, with details drawn from police reports:
► A 10-year-old boy came home at 2:45 p.m. Oct. 8 and called his parents to tell the family’s apartment on Third Avenue and 10th Street had been ransacked and burglarized. Both the boy's parents were at work when the burglary happened and had locked the front door when they left in the morning.
The thieves stole more than $15,000 in valuables, including $800 in cash, a $1,000 Movado watch, Tiffany jewelry, an iPad and a laptop.
► A 24-year-old woman had $4,930 in designer shoes and bags stolen when she left the fashionable duds in the back of a green cab after the driver said he would wait for her outside Atlantic Terminal Mall on Oct. 7 at 5:40 p.m.
The woman told police she believed the theft was part of a scam by a modeling agency that provided the cab and asked her to make the stop at the mall. The stolen goods included an $1,100 Louis Vuitton bag, $995 Valentino shoes, $895 Christian Louboutin shoes, and $995 Yves Saint Laurent sandals.
► A 39-year-old woman reported that three guitars had been stolen from her building’s basement storage space on Fifth Street and Seventh Avenue sometime between January and September.
Overall, major crimes in the 78th Precinct have increased 1.49 percent this year compared to the same period during 2014, according to the latest stats from the NYPD.
The map below shows only those blotter items compiled by DNAinfo New York within the date range indicated, not all crimes that took place in a given precinct.
